MSN Thinks Broadband Is Happening NOW

After launching a $300 million marketing campaign last year to promote its Internet service and take market share from AOL, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc., MSN is shifting its focus to the fast-growing high-speed, or broadband, market.

….”We knew broadband eventually was going to make its way into broader acceptance but, frankly, we didn’t know when that was going to happen. We think it’s happening now,” MSN marketing director Bob Visse said in an interview.

High-speed connections are essential to Internet distribution of music, video and other entertainment. About 16 million U.S. homes had broadband in 2002, up from 10 million a year earlier, according to research firm IDC.

There were 40.7 million dial-up Internet users in 2002. [Reuters]

It’s kind of simple: if you’re going to use the Internet – and this is becoming a virtual necessity of modern life – then the only convenient way to go is broadband. If you want to avail yourself of the Internet’s entertainment capabilities, then broadband is mandatory. I think you’ll see the dial-up-to-broadband ratio reverse itself within two years.

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About Eric Olsen

Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014.
Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted.
Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.